Hw: 49 (edited)

1. HW - 49 - A 4-6 paragraph analysis of your section's class savior/teacher film. This will be due Friday, April 23 at 9pm. Please address:
a. your personal contribution
b. your analysis of the message and tone of your section's film
c. contrast the film with the savior/teacher films we watched clips of
d. theorize (explore thoughtfully and powerfully) the connection between salvation and education/schooling in our culture

If your section didn't successfully complete a film you could choose to use this film to compare/contrast.

Our class didn't finish our movie, but in our movie we made it on the fake glory teachers get for changing a student who chooses to change him/herself. in the movie i contributed as a extra in the class and was assigned as the editor, but since we never finished filming we didn't do that part.

Sections 1's movie was a quick revelation on a happy tone to a serious tone after a day. in the beginning it show an empty classroom with the teacher stressed sitting at his desk drinking his pain away. After he feel asleep it was unclear either he was having a dream or remembering what happened that day. Since it blurred out as a time skip, either forward or backwards. the first day when the teacher was active trying to "teach" them, that didn't work since the students didn't care about it. Even though the students said that they didn't care about learning what was in the school curriculum but when it is about anything else, school is all they know. Even though they got a revelation at the end they still went back to be noisy kids and the students didn't care what was being taught to them, either it was based on sizer point of view or herize point of view.

This film is not like the super teacher films in many ways, since the teacher tried to teach them "a school topic" and they didn't listen and when he tried to teach them the said reality of life they didn't care. When it connect to their real world and can help the student's current lives don't matter, since they wont care. But the short film did follow the guide line of the teacher trying the school way, then get a break down on what to do next since they "seem" to have lost and then try to connect to the students on their terms and point of view.

Neither the super teach films or the short story films really show the reality of this cultures institutions. Each were to focused on their own theme and was not looking at the different possibilities that the film can have. the reality of the school culture is something that cannot be fully realized and changed in this world no matter how much it seems wrong. Teachers in reality would not give up as easily as the teacher in the short story and would not try and change their teachings like in freedom writers, but in the french movie "the class" showed the closest reality of what teachers and students faced, and how in school there cannot be a solution all the time, and that this world institutions are just poorly structured with the teachers and students looking different ways, and not caring for the other sides needs.

HomeWork 48: Treatment

Opening:
Looking at the blue sky, all bright and wonderful, with pidgens flying across, moving to the front of the sidwalk where kids are going to school.
Scene1:
The sidewalks are emty and a kid steps into the picture with his school bag on one sholder. He stares up at the sign of the school and walked into the school building. The scurity officer giver him a star from the front desk, and he strolls by.
Scene2:
The kid strolls into the main office and he talkes to the desk person telling he/she they are here to see the principle. The lady is not paying attention to the kid, but has the impression that the kid is bad.
Scene3:
As the kid walks into the principle he is asked to take a seeat; and reviews the standards and motto of the school and what he expects from him. Of cource the kid agrees and collects his paper work, as the principle is staring at the kid looking confused. As the principle dissmis the student and he walks out the door quietly.
Scene4:
The student walks through a emty hallway with a couple papers on the ground, as he opens the door a rush of noise filled his mind from the classroom. students sitting tables (not rows) but like groups as the teachers welcomes the student and asked him to introduce himself to the class. A couple of snickers and wispers but the rooms is mostly quite as the kid takes his seat.

HomeWork 47-Class film preparation 1

Please compose a colorful list of 5-10 ideas that should be considered for inclusion in your section's version of the "Savior/Teacher" film.

You could address plot, character, theme, tone, cinematography, dialogue, key images, tropes, references, or our collective process of making the film. Indicate which of the ideas are most important to you by putting an asterix by the one or few which you think are most compelling.

1. The students should be zombie like, shown in modern time (maybe black and white background) showing how all the students are oblivious to the world around them while they are "sucking" on the brains of their teachers to "feed" themselves.

2. Show more than one teacher or more than one class for a teacher, since the same students may not be interesting since it has been don't many times. it should show how a new york school really is and not all miracles can happen since it needs to point out the reality of schools and not just the made up fantasy that only happens in a few occasions.

3. We can show in a principles point of view walking into class rooms, since they always make the administrative seem bad and maybe we can shed some light and make the administrative look good.

4. a good 10% of the movie at least has to be scenery shots

5. some really overly dramatic scene to capture the audience attention

6. a choice can be a student teaching the teacher more about reality by switching roles (probably a new kid (transfer))

7. something unusual...

8. "film" of us filming the movie?

9. bad teacher?